Concept
Certain key concepts describe the action of the basic program
TIME | ENERGY | SELF | WISH | DECISION | COMMITMENT | INTENTIONAL ACTION | ATTENTION | PRESENCE | SELF-OBSERVATION |Structure
The program is structured upon man himself rather than the objects of human knowledge. Consequently, it has a different impact on each person.
Through systematic structuring, all domains of human experience are represented: bodily, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, and
spiritual.
In this way it is designed to achieve a balance of these domains, bodily, emotional, and mental functions, and to awaken
latent spiritual perceptions
The aim is to make the whole of life significant. Every necessary activity, however trivial, can be turned to account for developing attention, the control of energy, and a balance between inner and outer life. The program is planned so that students can make use of all activities, including the full enjoyment of the pleasures of life, for the realisation of this full potential.
The Group Gurdjieff has no religious affiliation. But it is to be understood that the program is fundamentally committed to a spiritual attitude toward life. This attitude is to be understood objectively. It is easy to have a subjective attitude, which consists in “believing” that there is a spiritual reality and that various phenomena attest to it. An objective spiritual attitude accepts that a spiritual action is as real as a material one, and even more necessary for our well being. The spiritual action is intelligent and pervasive, but works within, unperceived by our senses except in its results. We can experience this action in ourselves when we have learned to respond to it. Without it our own efforts of self-perfecting can give very little fruit.
The basic Group Gurdjieff program is a comprehensive training of our capacities and powers and it is made clear to candidates that
they cannot expect to achieve the desired result unless they are ready to work hard under a wide range of conditions. The 4th Way
Program is designed to teach methods and techniques and provide conditions for applying them to the best effect; but it is the
individual that must do the work.
Edward Fanaberia
After university at Concordia and McGill and eight years of practical experience, Mr. Fanaberia did studies in India with such teachers as Muktanada, the Mother (in Pondicherry), and Neem Karoli Baba (teacher of Ramdas) He was also in direct contact and inspired by Karmapa, Sai Baba, as well as others.
It was there he eventually met a student of the Gurdjieff Work and was put in contact with J. G.Bennett a direct pupil of Gurdjieff himself. Mr.B, via his quality of being, his many books and teachings, was regarded as one of the major proponents of the Gurdjieff Work in Europe and a teacher in his own right. Mr.Fanaberia, did intensive Gurdjieff studies in England with Mr. Bennett in 1973-74. After five years of group teaching himself, he was selected as a member of the board of directors of The Claymont Society for Continuous Education, the North American 4th way (Gurdjieff Work) school established by Mr. Bennett in West Virginia.
Mr.Fanaberia, Group Gurdjieff Montreal director, has been leading and directing groups for over 40 years. He was also the founding director of The Centre for the Healing Arts (1976) and was instrumental in bringing Shiatsu teachings to 1000’s of practitioners.
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